To the editor: We should act urgently to deal with excessive warmth on our public college campuses (“Coping with excessive warmth is a full-time job for folks of younger children — and their colleges,” July 8). Opposite to the article’s characterization, Los Angeles Unified Faculty District has made inexperienced area a precedence following my 2022 decision that set a brand new customary requiring all college playgrounds to incorporate a minimum of 30% inexperienced area. Since then, our district has devoted greater than $1.2 billion of voter-approved bond funding towards greening and shading initiatives and greater than 150 greening initiatives are at the moment in progress.
Because the consultant for East San Fernando Valley colleges and an LAUSD dad or mum, I do know that we’re beginning to see the constructive outcomes of bringing inexperienced areas to our campuses, however so a lot of our colleges are nonetheless intensely scorching. We should and can do extra to remodel all our public college campuses with the urgency this environmental justice challenge calls for.
Kelly Gonez, Los Angeles
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To the editor: I additionally discovered the exhausting means that air con is a life or dying requirement, not a luxurious. Throughout a brutal warmth wave in late July 2022, my 4-month-old was enjoying on the tile ground of my dwelling, which had no AC. He slowly stopped waving his rattle, then stopped making sounds, then laid his cheek down on the ground and stared blankly on the wall. I checked his temperature and located it to be 103 levels.
Now terrified, I stripped him down, washed him with cool cloths and acquired him within the automotive with the AC on full blast. We raced to my in-laws’ home, which has AC, and laid him on the wooden ground. After an hour, he began shifting and cooing once more and he was nice. That was essentially the most horrifying day of my life, considering that I used to be going to look at my child die in entrance of my eyes. After we moved a yr later, AC was the No. 1 non-negotiable merchandise on our record for our new dwelling.
Kristen Robles, Ventura
